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Alfred Hitchcock is noted as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and rightfully so his body of work, comprised of over 60 films, is skillfully composed, highly dramatic, and eclectic from beginning to end. So pulling back the curtain on the legend in his own medium was only a matter of time, a how'd-he-do-it biopic that could pay respects to the collected works while revealing the master's process. Hitchcock, directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil: The Story of Anvil) pays its respects, but also reveals another unexpected quality of the auteur's behind-the-scenes life: it wasn't all that dramatic.
Anthony Hopkins slides into the silhouette of the recognizable director, and does a reasonable job nailing his cadence and posture. Side by side with his wife Alma (Helen Mirren), who, as the movie reveals, was the director's close collaborator, Hitchcock strides confidently into the world of independent cinema for the first time, balking at studio heads who demand something more audience-friendly than the gruesome Psycho. Investing his own money into the film, Hitchcock risks everything to turn the story of murderer Ed Gein into a high art horror picture. He finds a leading lady in Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johansson), a script in a screenwriter with mommy problems, and a closeted actor to portray the sexually exploratory Gein.
And that's about it. Hitchcock disguises the usual stresses of moviemaking as major hurdles, even representing Gein as a specter who haunts Hitchcock's every decision. Aside from the brief suspicion that Alma abandons him mid-production for charming writer Whitfield Cook (Danny Huston), which feels stuffed in and meandering rather than intrinsic to the making of Psycho, there's little explanation for Hitchcock's anxiety and downward spiral. The film even dabbles in Hitch's well-known infatuation with his leading ladies explored to a terrifying degree in last month's The Girl but places the director on too high a pedestal to ever dig deep.
The real star of the show and, perhaps, one who would have made a better subject for feature film is Alma, a complex second fiddle overshadowed by the greatness of Hitchcock. Mirren once again delivers a lively performance as a woman desperate to live her own life; the scene when she lets loose on Hitchcock is easily the high point of the movie. But like the audience who unknowingly appreciated her work behind-the-camera, Hitchcock is too obsessed with the man at the center of it all to open up and give the character or Mirren the spotlight.
Hitchcock's time period flourishes and camera work are presented simply (Gervasi keeps hat tipping to the auteur's oeuvre to a minimum), while Danny Elfman whips up a score that riffs appropriately on longtime Hitchcock collaborator Bernhard Hermann's works. But there's no hook to elevate the film from a puff piece, and even the biggest Alfred Hitchcock fan will be grasping for something more.
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With lingering drought keeping the crucial Mississippi River waterway at historically low levels, some projected that barge traffic on the river would come to a scraping halt in early January. It hasn't proved to be quite as bad – the Army Corps of Engineers now says the river will likely stay open for transportation at least through the month – but many grain and energy industries that rely on sending products up and down the river aren't yet breathing a sigh of relief.
A lot of grain begins its journey on farms in Iowa and other Corn Belt states as it makes its way south down the Mississippi.
"This is as low as I've ever seen it, so it's pretty tough to get everything loaded," said Tim Bly, a Cargill grain elevator manager in Muscatine, Iowa.
Bly said they were already loading far less grain on barges before the traditional winter shutdown that's normal this far north on the Mississippi.
"We had to lighten them up to 9-foot draft because of the low water levels, which is about 3,000 to 4,000 bushels difference on a barge – it's that much less you're getting on a barge," Bly said.
That means more barges have to be used to fulfill contracts and more barges means more money spent on fuel.
Further down the river, south of St. Louis, Mo., barges are still plying, but because the water level keeps forecast keeps changing, many companies can't plan far enough ahead. After all, it takes weeks to ship freight down to the Gulf in southern Louisiana, and even longer to get it on ocean vessels.
"We're just holding barges back hoping we'll be able to transport at some time or we're just light loading the barges," said Rick Calhoun, president of Cargill's shipping company.
Calhoun said in some cases they've had to turn away overseas customers, losing their business entirely. Mike Steenhoek, head of the Soybean Transportation Coalition, says this is an especially bad time to be losing grain business. South American farmers are just starting to harvest their crops and global demand is fickle – it will just go elsewhere.
"When the South American harvest comes online U.S. exports drop precipitously – when U.S. harvest comes online, their exports drop precipitously," Steinhook said. "When you have a supply chain disruption this time of year it's kind of analogous to a supply chain disruption for retailers prior to Christmas."
And low river levels aren't just affecting the grain business. Energy sources like petroleum and coal, and fertilizer that moves up the river are all facing shipping uncertainty as well. So what are companies to do?
Chad Hart, an economist at Iowa State University, says shipping freight on trucks is one option. But it's a lot more expensive and not only hauls a lot less product than a barge, it burns a lot more fuel. Hart says moving commodities on rail is a better alternative, but there's a problem.
"Rail can be competitive on a cost per mile basis, but you've got to go where the rail goes," Hart said. "Just like with barges you've got to go where the river goes. But we've designed our system along the river."
The Mississippi runs more than 2,500 miles and spans 10 states. To keep the barges traveling, the Army Corps of Engineers released water in December from Carlyle Lake east of St. Louis. Increasingly, there are calls for the Corps to release waters from reservoirs on the Missouri River, which feeds into the Mississippi, but the Corps says that water is reserved for things like irrigation and recreation. Besides, the Corps says tapping that resource would take an act of Congress.
The Mississippi's weakest link is farther downriver, between Cairo, Ill., and St. Louis. The Corps of Engineers is blasting rock and dredging river bottom along the rough stretch to make it deeper.
John Kennedy, the mayor of the tiny town of Thebes, Ill., where the majority of the blasting and dredging work is being done, says in his 35 years in town he's seen a lot on the river.
"Just ungodly stuff on this old river over the years – seen barges sink, hit the bridge," Kennedy said. "(When we were) kids one time we were down here messing around – we watched the barge hit the bridge."
But one thing Kennedy has never seen is the river as low as it is now.
The national weather service is forecasted that in early February the Mississippi River in Thebes could be too shallow for any barge to traverse. The broader concern is that as the Mississippi dries up, so will some businesses that have long relied on it for transportation.
KRCU's Jacob McCleland contributed to this report.


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Remembering the Military . . . by Mail
More than 1.4 million Americans serve in the military, with about 200,000 of those troops serving overseas. Members of the armed forces can feel isolated while deployed, often in dangerous conditions. The military discovered long ago that mail boosts the morale of troops serving in other parts of the world, so it has made military mail a high priority. Military mail provides members of the armed forces with a vital link to their communities.


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Oregon House passes illegal-immigrant tuition bill
By LAUREN GAMBINO
Of the Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon House lawmakers voted Friday to pass a bill that would extend resident college tuition rates to some young illegal immigrants following a passionate — and at moments heated — hour-long debate.
After the numbers showed the bill had passed, supporters watching in the gallery stood up and, holding hands, raised their arms in celebration.
"When I saw those numbers I was very excited," said Hugo Nicolas, 20, an illegal immigrant who wants to attend the University of Oregon to study economics.
Rep. Michael Dembrow, a Portland Democrat who sponsored the measure, called it a "historic" vote, an important educational and economic step for Oregon.
The House's 38-18 vote sends the measure to the Senate. In the last decade, similar legislation has failed twice in the House after passing the Senate in 2003 and 2011. Both died in the House without a vote amid Republican opposition. This time five Republicans supported it.
The measure would allow students to qualify for in-state tuition at Oregon's seven public universities if they've attended an Oregon high school for at least three years and lived in the United States for at least five. They'd also have to sign an affidavit swearing they'll apply to legalize their immigration status as soon as they are eligible.
Illegal immigrants would not be eligible for state or federal financial aid, and they'd be subject to the same university entrance requirements as other applicants.
Republicans offered a counter proposal that would have made the bill expire in 2016 and limited the resident tuition rates to students in the country by July 1. It also would have provided more stringent rules on how students would follow through with their pledge to become lawful residents. It was rejected in a party-line vote.
The non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Office estimated the bill would increase the state's revenue by $335,000 over the next two years and by an additional $1.6 million between 2015 and 2017.
The Oregon University System estimated 38 illegal immigrant-students would take advantage of the resident tuition rates during the next two years and 80 more students would take part in the two years after that.
The difference between resident and nonresident tuition is almost $20,000. At the University of Oregon, resident tuition fees for 15 credits, the average course load, are currently $9,310 per year.
"I know that this historic vote is really the result of larger historic forces that are at play," Dembrow said, referencing President Barack Obama's promise to pass comprehensive immigration reform.


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Editor's Comment: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a measure of psychological distress used to determine levels of anxiety and depression. HADS was specifically designed to avoid common physical symptoms of illness, such as fatigue, insomnia and hypersomnia. By leaving out physical symptoms, it was hoped that HADS would serve as a tool for the detection of psychological distress in people with physical health. The use for which HADS was originally intended does not encompass ME/CFS.
Depression in paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome
By Helen Bould et al.
Objective: To describe the prevalence of depression in children with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and investigate the relationship between depression in CFS/ME and clinical symptoms such as fatigue, disability, pain and school attendance.
Design: Cross-sectional survey data using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) collected at assessment.
Setting: Specialist paediatric CFS/ME service in the South West.
Patients: Children aged 12–18 years with CFS/ME.
Main outcome measure: Depression was defined as scoring >9 on the HADS depression scale.
Results: 542 subjects had complete data for the HADS and 29% (156/542) (95% CI 25% to 33%) had depression. In a univariable analysis, female sex, poorer school attendance, and higher levels of fatigue, disability, pain, and anxiety were associated with higher odds of depression. Age of child and duration of illness were not associated with depression. In a multivariable analysis, the factors most strongly associated with depression were disability, with higher scores on the physical function subscale of the 36 item Short Form (SF-36).
Conclusions: Depression is commonly comorbid with CFS/ME, much more common than in the general population, and is associated with markers of disease severity. It is important to screen for, identify and treat depression in this population.
Source: Arch Dis Child doi:10.1136/archdischild-2012-303396. Helen Bould, Simon M Collin, Glyn Lewis, Katharine Rimes, Esther Crawley. School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK


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HPV Vaccination -- A Wasted Resource for African Americans?
By Gary Bell
May 16, 2013
The United States has no reporting system for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infections. Infections and the development of warts appear to be common throughout life. In general, genital HPV infection is considered to have become dramatically more frequent over the past several decades. In the United States, young adults aged 15-24 years account for approximately one half of new HPV infections each year. The highest rate of infection is among young females aged 20-24 years. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there are 6 million new incidents a year in the United States (in 2008) and an estimated prevalence of more than 20 million.
HPV infection has been identified as a potential cofactor in a number of serious diseases, including cervical cancer, and even HIV infection. In the United States, African Americans have a rate of HPV infection that is 1.5 times higher than their white counterparts. One US survey reported that among women, the prevalence of HPV infection due to any HPV type was 39% for non-Hispanic blacks, and 24% for non-Hispanic whites and Mexican Americans. From 1987 to 1991, the age-adjusted cervical cancer death rate reported by the US National Cancer Institute was higher among black women than among white women, with a ratio of 6:1. HPV may also linger longer in African American women.
Because most HPV infections are transient, it is usually cleared by ones immune system within one or two years. However, a recent study of college aged women by the University of South Carolina found a tendency for more persistent HPV infection. It also found black women to have a 70% greater chance of abnormal pap smears than white women. A vaccine for HPV was first licensed in 2006. The vaccine, distributed under the name Gardasil, was the first vaccine known to protect against approximately 70% of the strains of cervical cancer in girls as well as roughly 90% of the strains that cause genital and anal warts. It was not for another 3 years before the vaccine was considered for use in boys and 2010 until it received licensure from the United States Food and Drug Administration for the prevention of cancer in boys, especially anal cancer.
However, despite its proven effectiveness, most African American young people are not accessing it. In 2010, only 1% of boys recommended to receive the vaccine did. Only 8% received one dose but did not complete the series. A recent survey of adolescent black girls and their caregivers conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Health found that only one in four eligible black adolescent girls has received the vaccine. Many of the 71 young people surveyed, most of whom were black, expressed that they thought that the vaccine was "safe and effective." Moreover, the 45 caregivers who were surveyed agreed, but most of them said they didn't remember the HPV vaccine being mentioned by their health-care provider.
Young people, particularly minorities, and their parents/guardians need to edcuate themselves about HPV infection and vaccination and become their own advocates. They cannot assume that health care providers will mention it. Many are still struggling with performing routine testing of HIV. Vaccine is paid for by most insurances, is available at sites such as Planned Parenthood and will be required under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
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Mill Valley photographer Gary Yost's poetic video about a day in his life as a Mount Tamalpais fire lookout volunteer has gone viral -- and earned a spot in an international film festival.
More than 300 websites have posted the six-minute salute celebrating the majestic panorama unfolding around the clock at the mountain's fire lookout station atop the East Peak, where Yost volunteers for two-day shifts during the summer season.
Yost -- a computer expert who developed software for Atari in the 1980s, then created a best-selling 3-D animation program he sold to Autodesk in 1999 -- took three cameras and 120 pounds of gear to the station to record an around-the-clock tribute.
A cascade of images captures a profound sense of place graced by breathtaking vistas across the Bay Area at 2,586 feet, and provides a moving portrait of intense beauty bathed in unique lighting, weather and environment. The spiritual nature of the peak, its magnificence and air of magic is apparent as it stands like a solitary sentinel overlooking the region.
"It's amazing up there at night," the 53-year-old Yost said. "It's just you. ... There's a sense of isolation, which is a profound juxtaposition to the 7 million people in the Bay Area you're looking out at."
The beauty of the mountain is so vibrant he finds it hard to rest during his overnight shifts. "The stars up there are magnificent. The fog below is like a carpet of slow-motion ocean, illuminated from underneath by the lights of San Francisco, Marin and the East Bay. It was so beautiful that I couldn't sleep."
At the same time, the light during the day can cut like a laser, "blasting so bright that you have to avert your eyes."
The top of the mountain resonates with a healing, overpowering, zen-like aura and serves as "my spiritual talisman," he said.
Yost used a time-lapse technique involving motion-control camera dollies, motors and other specialized equipment to reflect the synchronous rhythm of life at the top, with images of changing vistas and activities flashing over time. There's a sweeping view of the region on a crystalline day, faraway vessels on the bay, oceans of fog, a setting sun making way for shining stars, and a sparkling earthly constellation anchored by ribbons of freeway headlights.
Clips show Yost monitoring the watershed with binoculars, cooking a meal and checking in with county fire dispatchers on the station's radio -- a link to the world of fire service life that fills him with awe about "how ready they are to help us at a moment's notice ... it's one of my biggest takeaways from my experience as a lookout."
But there is little dialogue as the video revels in "just that feeling of peace, protection, and magnificence that is our beautiful mountain."
The video started to take off almost as soon as he posted it on vimeo.com, but the clicks really began to mount when laughingsquid.com picked it up a week ago.
By this weekend, it had been loaded more than 640,000 times, with about 84,000 people watching it through to the end.
Nikon World magazine plans a feature story, and the Madrid Film Festival highlighted it last weekend on a 70-foot screen during a program on time-lapse filmmaking.
"It's a little unexpected, since this was a noncommercial, donated project to Marin County Fire, intended to share my feelings and to help recruit volunteers," he said. "But I also have a great sense of pride that hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world can feel a little bit of that magic that makes our mountain such a unique and sacred place."
Don Keylon, the county fire engineer who manages the lookout program and its volunteers, said that while he knew Yost was putting weeks of editing effort into the project, "I had no idea his video would be this popular."
"Isn't it just amazing?" added Jason Weber, Marin's acting fire chief. "We're going to get a lot of volunteers to serve as lookouts."
Several dozen volunteers rotate through shifts at the station, which was first built by the San Francisco Examiner in 1901 as a post for reporters to spot ships at sea when port arrivals were big news. It was rebuilt as a fire lookout in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Yost became interested in the fire service after taking CERT training in Mill Valley. He took a county training course and became a lookout volunteer two years ago, and as a disciple of the noted agrarian writer Wendell Berry, embarked on the video project to celebrate the mountain. "This quote by him is clearly the inspiration for the video: 'The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope,'" Yost said.
Yost has another project in mind about Tamalpais mountain peaks that Miwoks considered so sacred they didn't venture to the top. This one's about how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, acting on orders from the Air Force during the Korean War, sliced off the top of the West Peak in 1950 to install a radar station.
Yost will use his software, animation and photographic skills to show what the mountain looked like before the bulldozers moved in, and wants those with photographs of the West Peak before 1950 to contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
"We want our 41 feet back," he said of the lost peak.
Contact Nels Johnson via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at twitter.com/nelsjohnsonnews ___
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High Tail Hall, also known as HTH, is an adult Flash animation game created by the artist Crowchild and his studio HTH Studios (formerly Pendragon Entertainment).
In it, the player's character can explore an island in an unspecified body of water, exploring the nature, ruins, and the titular "High Tail Hall", all while seeking intercourse with the furry characters on the island. The game currently exists as a public beta and is planned to have a full disk release when it is completed.
Other active elements on this Flash game include an interactive news bulletin board, tip jar, a suggestion box, and several hidden locations and secrets.
High Tail Hall 1.0 (1.5)[edit]
High Tail Hall began its existence as a discussion on the Yiffstar messageboards. Crowchild, the creator of Pendragon Entertainment, announced he would be making a flash akin to The Tail Underground, seeing as updates to it were sporadic at best. This announcement included a statement that people who wished to be in the animation need only ask.
Some time after the announcement, the finished product, version 1.5, was released.
Fully interactive characters:
- Luca Shoal, an androgynous male fox. Luca is a maid for HTH and wears a "French maid outfit". He is owned by his player, Luca Shoal (Pendragon Entertainment holds the rights to the remaining characters.)
- Tanya Winters, a female Zebra. Tanya is a barmaid and serves guests (in more ways than one).
- Zoe Mallari, a female cheetah. Zoe is one of the HTH strippers.
Other characters:
- Maxwell Moore, a black male tomcat (text only). Maxwell is apparently the owner and manager of HTH and serves guests as a bartender. He seems to have many sexual relationships with the strippers.
- Boris, an old male crow (text only). Boris is from Russia and is one of Maxwell's regular customers.
- A female kangaroo and an avian character. The kangaroo (who is evidently a stripper) is having sex with a raven (or crow) character in the basement of the bar.
- There is also a crow in the far left upstairs room, but never does anything but read a book.
(Note: These are the characters that appear in Version 1.5. Characters from Version 1.7 are not included on this list.)
High Tail Hall has a bar with an outside balcony on the main floor, private rooms on the second floor, a dance floor and bar downstairs off the ground floor. There is also a secret entryway on the second floor (by clicking one of the lamps), a hidden envelope containing erotic art and a codeword. In Version 1.7 the player has the option of going outside.
When in the storage room you can click on a hanger that will take you to a room to enter the codeword E1B2 (letters must be in caps)or you right-click and press play, That brings you to this weird scene with red circles with the numbers 13, 85, 27.
While outside, clicking on the fourth tree from the right, will trigger a cutscene of a tryst between a male herp and a female faun.
High Tail Hall 1.7[edit]
Version 1.7 offered the opportunity to add your own character/fursona to the game engine for a fee. Unfortunately, a fire broke out in the Pendragon Entertainment studio, destroying the computer with all the commissions on it, and causing thousands of dollars worth of damage to the building, as well as taking the life of the neighborhood cat.[1]
All Pendragon Entertainment projects were suspended, but full refunds were given to everyone who commissioned a character. The improvements that were being added to version 1.7 were:
- A redesigned Tanya Winters.
- The ability to venture outside the pub, where one could find a non-working Stargate, and a hidden spot with an orcish character and satyr.
- Jade Felicia Lanely, a female blue fox (incomplete full interaction. Right-clicking "play" on the character shows some of the intended interaction, before the sequence abruptly ends.)
1.7 was dropped, and now only exists in an archived version.
High Tail Hall 2.0[edit]
After a period of time in which Crowchild was preoccupied with moving and working, a new game called High Tail Hall 2.0 was released as the latest installment of the HTH series. This included all new characters, settings, and art style.
From March 2008 to December 2008, several new characters with numerous new adult character-to-player-to-character interactions had been added to the game's content. According to Crowchild's FA page, an update was scheduled for October of 2009, but it did not occur. Crowchild resurfaced on February 21st 2010 promising an update within three weeks. However, this deadline was missed as well. The project was considered by much of the community to be dead.[2]. TyvraPanther, voice actress for Rio Davis and Crowchild's girlfriend, commented on Crowchild's FA page, linking to a blog post made on her page, which answered some questions posed about the status of the project by the community, but is very outdated.
Old Version Characters (Last updated: December 2008)[edit]
Fully interactive characters:
- Bella, a female polar bear (voice acting by Amaracol Canis).
- Rio Davis, a female wolf/fox hybrid (voice acting by Tyvara Panther).
- Ginger, a hermaphrodite cat (temp. inactive).
- Jezel, a female husky.
- Shelly, a female collie.
- Shemyay, a female jackal (temp. inactive/off game).
- Cindy, a female rabbit.
- Kristy, a female cat.
- Aleta, a female parrot (voice acting).
Other characters:
- Bruce, male dinosaur (Bartender, new owner?).
- Drake, Simone, ?, ?, male duck with three female swans.
- ?, a non-anthropomorphic parrot on a stand.
- Felicity, a female rat.
High Tail Hall Classic[edit]
On Halloween 2007, Crowchild released an image of the beta of the bar scene and a sound test of Max from a now abandoned remake of High Tail Hall 1, titled High Tail Hall Classic.
HTHC would have been a total remake of the original game, and would feature the updated character models from HTH 2.0. This was dropped in favor of recreating the original hall on the island while keeping new locations and characters.
High Tail Hall: Twilight Cavern[edit]
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A fan created spinoff of the original High Tail Hall is on the works, being designed by an artist by the name Jack Salem, which will consist of established and new characters and locations. It has been announced that there will be approximately 12 female characters, and 6 different places to explore, as well as an in-depth plot.[citation needed]
As far as male characters, only one has been announced, and recently it was also announced that this version of the game is focused around heterosexual relations only. There will be a music score, mostly jazz tracks, written by Jack himself. This project was announced in 2006, with the only releases so far being images of characters and as of Christmas Day 2006, a Beta Preview with animation.[citation needed]
Upon the creator of Twilight Cavern hearing that the original High Tail Hall has come back into creation, the Twilight Cavern project has been announced to be a separate endeavor. Jack has stated that Twilight Cavern will be made, but it will no longer have any ties to High Tail Hall, save for any appearing special characters, such as Luca Shoal.[citation needed]
Jack has stated that he is indeed working on the project to the message-board Yiffstar, where the project was first announced.
Jack has started a commission service as a mini-fund raiser to support the re-creation of the Twilight Cavern Flash project, as posted in the miscellaneous Sub-forum at the Yiffstar community. He is establishing a new website and will be taking commissions for new characters shortly.
OpenHTH is an open source (as open as flash files can be) project based around High Tail Hall 1.7, the goal is to vastly improve the game, by enhancing existing content, but also adding to it.
The current version of OpenHTH is 1.0.2 which so far is only dialogue enhancements, replacing incorrect spelling and grammar, and typographical mistakes in the original HTH 1.7, some ambient music, and a few background animation enhancements.
Users are welcome to download the latest version and help add or enhance it, or download the base version (which is just the editable flash files of HTH 1.7) and try their hand at doing their own mod.
- Introduction to editing stage: which is to replace all the dialogue, while pertaining to some sort of persistent back story, to give it more of an atmospheric and immersive feel to it (as far as Flash goes anyway), part of the first phase is also to extend the length of the dialogue, and have somewhat more of an interactive conversation, to set it up as more of a game for later stages, then finally after all that is done fix any animation errors, that may get accidentally introduced from the editing.
- Technical and creative theory stage: which is to review the dialogue, plan where the game is headed, write up some design docs for planned expanded areas and characters, write the main and back story, figure out the character's persona and write the dialogue around that (creative writing class finally pays off :P).
- Technical backend stage: which is to create a backend engine for the game from scratch, which will contain your basic RPG elements, the journal, the inventory, etc.
- Content creation stage: which is of course, is to create new art and animation using what we planned out in the second phase to dictate what exactly we need to do, as well as sound effects, and creating a few musical scores.
- Putting it together stage: which is to link the content to the backend, define what its supposed to do, whats supposed to happen with each conversation path etc, put in the right dialogue for the right character, get the journal to update on certain events, etc etc.
- Testing stage: which is to obviously test what we have, see what works as intended, and to refine the game, correcting and fixing any errors, mistakes, bugs, etc.
Then finally it's finished, or is it? No not really, that 6 phase process can be repeated as many times, and with each lot of 6 phases can add as little or as much content as we please at the time.
Users can and are encouraged to contribute to this process, and critique upon whatever we have at any given point in time on the OpenHTH forums.
Current Version[edit]
On February 26, 2011, HTH Studios re-opened a completely changed and revamped version with a new interface and a new look. The previous version was lost due to Crowchild's working computer crashing and taking the files with it. The Current version dropped the "HTH 2" title, returning to "High Tail Hall" while the original game became referred to as "HTH Classic" within the community.
Crowchild updates the game periodically, with no less than three scenes per month, and possible location updates. The games return has been accompanied by a changing day to night time cycle, a bird's eye map of an island holding the locations of the two previous builds, and as of yet unsolved puzzles. On October 21st, 2012, Crowchild unveiled pay to play gold content as a method to keep the project funded, allowing him to work on the game full time. Updates and game info are available at Crowchild's/HTH Studios' official website:[1]. A tumblr has been created to document changes that take place over Crowchild's livestream:[2], as well as a wikia run by the studio to keep correct and up to date information:[3].
This version of the game is in open beta phase, with subscription content that adds an additional island, characters and scenes to play, on top of free to play content on Crowchild's website (http://www.hthstudios.com/?splash=removed).
For a list of characters in the current version of High Tail Hall, click here
Early versions of High Tail Hall prior to version 1.1 included an uncredited clip of Depeche Mode's song "Personal Jesus." This clip was removed from 1.2 on.
Some people believe that High Tail Hall was inspired by The Tail Underground, and vice versa. In fact, both Ian R. Soulfox and Pendragon Entertainment created their animations independently with overlapping development periods, with High Tail Hall being released after Tail Underground. Crowchild has admitted to liking the idea of torch lighting from Tail Underground and incorporating it into his own game. Ian has mentioned that he doesn't mind HTH, and that he enjoys its existence. Crowchild also greatly encourages similar projects, such as "Crowjob in Space" and "The Penthouse".
HTH Studios has had trouble using PayPal in the past, resulting in Crowchild being locked from his account with PayPal refusing to even interact with him. This resulted in the studio losing a large sum of money to an account that cannot be accessed.
As of 27 January, 2017; the HTH team have officially decided to stop releasing new content to free members, and have made well over 90% of the content that was previously available to free users (some for over a decade) exclusive to Gold subscribers[3]. However, on 13 July of that same year, free content returned in a limited fashion as every month, a ramdom character previously locked behind Gold subscriber content would be available to free members for a month[4].
- ↑ Fur Affinity journal by Crowchild, dated 21 February, 2010
- ↑ http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8051153/ Retrieved 2017/01/30
- ↑ http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8320342/ Retrieved 2017/09/07
External links[edit]
- HTH Studios official website
- High Tail Hall 1.5 at Newgrounds
- High Tail Hall 1.7 archived copy
- High Tail Hall 2 Original (2008) archived copy
- HTH Wikia
- High Tail Hall 2 forum Official message board
- HTH's FurAffinity page. Displays current art and updates to the game
- OpenHTH Archive Internet Archive backup of OpenHTH's webpage and source code.
- HTH Patreon page
- HTH on Facebook


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Long-term recovery groups remain active
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Long-term recovery groups remain active
WATERBURY, Vt. —
A long-term recovery group in Waterbury, Vt., formed after Tropical Storm Irene hit is finishing its work and is preparing to close its doors at the end of January.
Rebuild Waterbury formed early after the August 2011 storm and flooding and raised money quickly.
Vermont Public Radio reports the group received a $250,000 matching grant from the Stiller Family Foundation, which is affiliated with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. The town of Waterbury offered to loan the group $100,000, although the group never needed to borrow it.
The group also relied on volunteers who made sure residents had safe housing. They put in kitchens, bathrooms flooring, and fixed other problems.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities say a man opened fire while attempting to rob a gun store in a southwestern Russian town, killing at least six people before fleeing.
Officials said Monday that the man, Sergei Pomyazun, opened fire in the store, killing four employees. Pomyazun then started shooting on the street outside, killing a 14-year-old girl, before escaping in a car. A second girl, 16, later died in the hospital.
Police locked down the entire neighborhood as they searched for the man, whom they say has four prior criminal convictions and is in possession of several guns.
Belgorod's provincial governor declared a state of emergency, while its mayor announced two days of mourning.
With gun control stricter than in many countries, such multiple killings are rare in Russia.


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|Michigan at Wisconsin
|Kohl Center, Ninth Circle of Hell, Wisconsin
|6 pm Eastern, Saturday
|Wisconsin -8 (KenPom)
Right: Bo Ryan during a 25-point win. Seriously. (Not pictured: Sam Dekker's face melting off.)
Good news, everyone! Michigan plays Wisconsin at the Kohl Center, where they haven't won since 1999, against a Badger squad that ranks third nationally in offensive efficiency and is probably real pissed off about losing at Indiana on Tuesday. Are you ready for the basketball equivalent of Chinese water torture? Trick question, because there's no preparing yourself for that.
This year's Wisconsin offense may be the best Bo Ryan has ever assembled; the starting five features two efficient, high-usage players filling the roles of leading scorer (Sam Dekker) and distributor (Traevon Jackson) ... and the other three all rank within the top 60(!) nationally in offensive rating. While the defense isn't up to Ryan's normal standards—"just" 24th in efficiency—the combination of lethal outside shooting and Fort Knox-level ball protection on the other end makes Wisconsin one of the most difficult teams to beat in the country, especially at home.
Freed from the shackles that Ryan puts on all his freshmen, regardless of talent, 6'7" forward Sam Dekker has improved his efficiency as a sophomore while taking on the role of go-to scorer. He can score in just about any fashion—especially in transition, where he posts an absurd 81 eFG%—shooting 59% from two and 35% from three. He's Wisconsin's best offensive rebounder, as well; his only apparent offensive weakness is a surprisingly low 60% mark from the free-throw line.
Dekker is joined on the front line by 7'0" center Frank Kaminsky, who currently holds the #10 spot in the KenPom Player of the Year rankings* by virtue of being good at, well, just about everything. Kaminsky is shooting the lights out (60% 2-pt, 21-for-44 3-pt), rebounding well at both ends, rarely turning the ball over, and posting an impressive 6.2% block rate. John Beilein would do the most terrible thing he could imagine to have a Frank Kaminsky, which probably means he wouldn't say "thank you" to his Starbucks barista, because John Beilein is pretty much the nicest guy ever.
The Badgers go with a three-guard look featuring 6'2" junior Traevon Jackson—son of former OSU and NBA star Jim Jackson—running the point. With an assist rate more than double any of his teammates', Jackson's primary role is facilitating the offense; he's also got a decent outside shot (16-for-43 3-pt), and while he's not the most efficient scorer inside the arc, he gets to the line at a high rate.
Jackson is flanked in the backcourt by sharpshooters Ben Brust and Josh Gasser, whom you may remember from [TERRIBLE THING REDACTED] and [OTHER TERRIBLE THING REDACTED]. Brust has already attempted 111 three-pointers this season, the most of any Big Ten player, and he's connecting at a 42% clip; he's actually a worse shooter when he ventures inside the arc, but fouling him is ill-advised—he's 32-for-34 this season at the charity stripe. Gasser is a 39% three-point shooter who's much more effective than Brust as a slasher—he hits 52% of his twos, mostly at the rim, and 87% of his free throws with a FT rate just outside the top 100 nationally.
6'7", 250-pound freshman Nigel Hayes—high school teammate of Chris Wormley at Toledo Whitmer—has come on really strong of late as he's learned to use his solid frame to get to the line; this chart from SI's Luke Winn (published before the Indiana game) speaks volumes:
Hayes has now attempted nearly as many free throws (67, of which he makes 62%) as field goals (71, 52%); he's averaging 11 points in Big Ten play while playing ~18 minutes per in that span. While his rebounding rates are pretty low for a post player, Bo Ryan has been willing to put him out there in place of Kaminsky and play small-ball (or Wisconsin's twisted version of small-ball).
While Hayes has carved out a decent role for himself recently, the Badgers still don't use their bench often—they rank 338th in bench minutes. The primary backup guard is 6'3" freshman Bronson Koenig, a very low-usage player who hasn't attempted more than four shots in a conference game; he's shooting well from two and struggling from the outside.
Wisconsin jumped out to a school-record 16-0 start before Tuesday's loss at Assembly Hall, and they didn't do it against the proverbial tray of cupcakes: those 16 wins include nine KenPom top-100 teams, four of which rank in the top 25 (Florida, St. Louis, Virginia, and Iowa). Their most impressive win is probably the 48-38 suffocation of #17 Virginia in the B1G/ACC Challenge that set the game of basketball back a good half-century.
Now that we're partway into conference play, I'll start posting four factors charts for all the games and Big Ten games only, with sample size issues obviously coming into play on the latter for a while.
Four factors, all games (national ranks in parentheses):
|Turnover %
|Off. Reb. %
|55.2 (12)
|12.9 (2)
|30.2 (218)
|40.7 (173)
|45.0 (41)
|16.2 (297)
|28.6 (59)
|23.8 (1)
Conference-only (four games, Big Ten ranks in parentheses):
|Turnover %
|Off. Reb. %
|57.5 (2)
|11.4 (1)
|27.0 (9)
|36.0 (7)
|41.9 (1)
|12.9 (12)
|37.2 (11)
|25.0 (1)
The offense doesn't rebound well; they don't exactly have to, however, when they're shooting 39% from three and 53% from two as a team (and a remarkable 58% from two in conference play). The Badgers still hold the ball for an agonizingly long time on each possession and put up a high number of three-pointers; now they're just doing it more efficiently than ever before.
The defense looks really good on paper, especially when focusing on opponent eFG%, but they don't force turnovers or rebound very well; against Indiana, other flaws were exposed, per UMHoops:
Indiana handed Wisconsin its first loss of the season on Tuesday at Assembly Hall thanks to an impressive offensive showing. The Hoosiers racked up 1.17 points per trip against the Badgers in the worst defensive showing for Bo Ryan's program in a Big Ten game since March, 2012.
The Badgers clearly have some defensive issues to work out and their issues against Indiana stemmed from a failure to stop dribble penetration. Indiana was 28-of-48 on two point attempts and Yogi Ferrell (9-of-16 on twos), Will Sheehey and Stanford Robinson got to the basket at will.
A numbers-heavy look at the Badger defense at that link reveals issues against the fast break, pick-and-roll, and isolation looks that Michigan can potentially exploit. The Wolverines will probably have to do most of their damage in those areas if they want to keep pace with Wisconsin, one of the very best teams in the country at preventing and defending opponent three-pointers.
Unleash Stauskas. Wisconsin's defensive deficiencies appear ripe for exploitation by Nik Stauskas, especially with how well he's working the pick-and-roll with both big men in recent games. The Badgers will do everything they can to run him off the three-point line; that can open up gaps inside for Stauskas to drive or dish off to an open big. Caris LeVert could also get his penetration game going against Wisconsin—with their small backcourt, he's going to have a size advantage against whomever is defending him.
Don't blow rotations, please. Perimeter defense, especially on switches, has been a sore spot for Michigan this season. They simply can't afford to blow assignments against this Wisconsin team; losing a man on the perimeter is just asking for three points against, and in what should be a slow-paced game those are even more difficult to overcome. This won't be easy—not only do the guards have to be at peak awareness, the bigs are going to play in some uncomfortable spots with Kaminsky stretching the floor.
Quick outlets. Michigan isn't going to force many turnovers against Wisconsin given their ability to take care of the basketball, but that doesn't mean they can't get out in transition. The Badgers aren't a great rebounding team and their transition defense is iffy—after every Wisconsin miss, Michigan's bigs should be looking to move the ball upcourt with alacrity. This may be the only way the Wolverines can consistently generate open perimeter shots, and they'll need to do so if Wisconsin is hitting threes at their usual high rate.
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Michigan has a chance here if they can strike a fine balance between exploiting Wisconsin's trouble defending penetration and creating enough good looks from the outside to keep up with their three-point makes. I'd actually be pretty optimistic about this if not for (1) Michigan's own defensive issues probably cancelling this out, and (2) the goddamn Kohl Center, which cannot burn to the ground soon enough.
UMHoops preview. Maize n Brew preview. MnB Q&A with Bucky's 5th Quarter. Fouad recounts Michigan's struggles at Kohl if you're looking for a good hate-read. I jumped on the UMHoops podcast this afternoon with Joe Stapleton, David Merritt, and B5Q's Phil Mitten—listen for plenty of Wisconsin talk, a look at the 4-0 start in B1G play, and lots of OutKast. You can never go wrong with lots of OutKast.
*Kaminsky will be the fourth member of the top ten to face Michigan this season, joining Arizona's Nick Johnson (#3), Iowa State's DeAndre Kane (#7), and Duke's Jabari Parker (#9).


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Charleston ends Hickory's win streak at 8
The Hickory Crawdads' win streak came to an end on Tuesday.
The Charleston RiverDogs pounded out 10 runs on 10 hits, including home runs by Reymond Nunez and Mason Williams, on their way to a 10-3 victory over the Hickory Crawdads in South Carolina.
Dante Bichette, Jr. led Charleston (35-22) with a 3-for-5 hitting performancing, including two RBIs.
Desingated hitter Jeremy Williams and first baseman Jhonny Gomez led Hickory (31-26) with one RBI each. Williams also had a team-high three hits.
Evan Rutckyj picked up the win for Charleston, while Nick Martinez suffered the loss for Hickory.
The 'Dads and RiverDogs play the second game of the series on Wednesday at 7:05 p.m.


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Interview With Artist Anthony Sekyere!
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Threadless Ambassador Tom interviews the the incredibly talented and amazing Anthony Sekyere aka citizen rifferson!
First of all hello and welcome! You have impressed everybody with your design skills and style, is there anything that you can't draw?
Glad to be here! I've only been on Threadless for about a year so I'm flattered that people have been noticing my work when there's so much amazing stuff on this site.
Anyway back to the question, hmm... I guess I've always been pretty bad at drawing cars (unless they're really simplistic cartoony cars or something) luckily I'm pretty stubborn when it comes to getting things right, so if I have trouble drawing something I tend to sketch it over and over again until it's at least half decent to look at.
How would you describe your personality to somebody who has never met you before?
There's no way I can do this without it sounding like someone's profile from a dating site, but I'd describe myself as being a pretty easy going type of guy. I have a pretty weird sense of humour, but I usually hide the crazy side of me when meeting people for the first time, I live for those moments where I meet someone that's as weird as I am.
If somebody wrote a biography about you, what would the title be?
My Biography would have exactly the same title as Barack Obama's biography, but his name would be crossed out with mine written over it. I reckon he would be cool with that.
What techniques and materials do you use to make your designs?
Whatever leaves a mark I'll use, I love using Biro pens for quick drawings, for more detailed stuff I use dip pens. All the work I do is hand drawn, but sometimes I'll edit the line work in Illustrator..truth be told I'm pretty old school at heart, drawing and painting is what I like doing the most compared to all the computer stuff.
Should art carry a message?
I don't think there's a rulebook when it comes to art, so I definitely don't look down on art that doesn't carry a message, as long as it's done well I can appreciate it.
Do you see your art as expressing something new?
To be honest I haven't given it that much thought, I don't draw to shake up the art world or whatever, there's no motive behind it. It's just something I love doing and if other people love looking at it then I'm happy.
What was your first piece of professional work?
The first big job I did was some ad work for Nokia about 4 years ago, it was a big deal for me at the time because it involved me drawing with a big group of other illustrators who mostly had way more experience than I had at the time, after doing that job I definitely felt more confident in my work, because at that time I was still at University and most of the work I was doing outside of that were pretty standard things like club flyers and stuff like that, so that job was a huge step up for me.
How would you describe your artwork?
I have a really hard time describing my artwork to people. I guess my work is just a hybrid of everything that influenced me in the past, either that or some crazy cartoon nonsense.
Is there a thriving art scene in London?
Oh yeah, there's always something going on here, nearly everyone in my neck of the woods is a budding illustrator/designer/artist these days.
Is the bird in your design 'Fight or Flight' a particular species of bird?
He's a pigeon, at first he was going to be an eagle, but I thought that if any animal was going to be a dirty street punk it would be a pigeon. I don't know about you but I've never seen two bald eagles fighting over a piece of month-old pizza crust in the middle of the street before.
"Fight or Flight" is available as a tee!
Which artist do you admire most?
That's a tough one because it's always changing, but Robert Crumb left a huge impression on me when I saw his work for the first time. Ask me tomorrow and I'll probably give you a different name.
Do you read comic books?
Surprisingly I've never really read any comics, when I was a kid all my money went towards buying computer games, and when I wasn't doing that I was watching cartoons .Then again, I guess it's never too late to get into comics so maybe I should grab some next time..wouldn't have a clue where to start though!
Do you collect anything?
I used to collect all sort of things as a kid, these days the closest thing I come to collecting are T-shirts, that's the only item I can think of that I have an unhealthy amount of.
Do you have any tips for budding new designers?
Focus on improving yourself based on your own work, rather than trying to be better than the next guy, its easy to look at other peoples work and start comparing yourself to them too much. I've always tried to set my own standards for myself instead of trying to out-draw everyone else, the most important thing is to come up with work that is unique to you, it takes a long time to develop but it's worth it in the long run. I'm personally still learning and developing my way of working all the time, so never stop trying to challenge yourself and improve on what you're already good at as well as trying new things.
Interview by Ambassador Tom Bryce


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Difficult to see Australia losing the men's, but they can be beaten. I hope the Black Sticks get a medal in either comp, and I think Belgium men could surprise - they are a handy side with some talented players who are easy to underestimate. It is hard for Great Britain because they only come together once every four years, one of the reasons why the 1988 gold medal was so special.
I said in the other thread I think hockey is incredibly underrated as a sport. I never played before I came to NZ - it's a game for private schoolboys in Britain - but I love it. I play as a right winger, I'm quick (despite my username) but it is hard to build up stick skills when you start at 23!


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Kawasaki USA announced today that it is rebranding its tragically named extended warranty program from the "Good Times Protection Plan" to "Kawasaki Protection Plus" for reasons we feel are too obvious to elaborate upon.
However, the real astonishing story here is that for the past 28 years, Kawasaki has made its dealers say with a straight face "Good Times Protection Plan" to would-be buyers, who were looking for more protection for…umm…what was between their legs.
Ahh, I remember in college when I had a "good times protection plan" — though you either had to buy a pack at the grocery store, or suffer through the line at Student Health to get them for free. That and other penis jokes await you in the comments section. Don't plan on seeing Kawasaki advertise on A&R anytime soon after this.


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An emotional Eric Buell announced that Buell motorcycles will no longer be built. Known as a trend setter in motorcycle advancements, the Buell brand has been making motorcycles for over a quarter of a century.
Harley Davidson recently announced they were discontinuing all production of Buell motorcycles and accessories. A press release quoted CEO Keith Wandell as saying: "The fact is we must focus both our effort and our investment on the Harley-Davidson brand, as we believe this provides an optimal path to sustained, meaningful long-term growth" after the recent release of HD's third quarter earnings report which showed a drop of income of 84%.
180 Buell employees are expected to be out of a job by December 18, 2009. The assembly line in East Troy Wisconsin has built over 135,000 motorcycles during their 25 years in business.
If you are in the market for a Buell motorcycle you might still be in luck. All remaining inventory will be sold through regular dealer networks. Harley Davidson has committed to providing parts and service for all Buell motorcycles sold, including all warranty work.
This decision seems to come at an odd time considering the new product introductions and recent racing success Buell has had such as the 2009 AMA Pro Racing Sport Bike Racing Championship.


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This is the home of many factories, in the eastern section of the city between the Port and the Slums. Everything is made of metal, and it is one of the major pathways through the city, both on foot and by Zoomer. The entrance to the Sewers is found here, and the Power Station is near the Port. The Warp Gate at the Power Station can take you to the Strip Mine and the Drill Platform.
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This is the Port, where most of the city's business happens. The city's most popular saloon (which isn't saying much), the Hip Hog Haven, can be found here, as well as the Gun Range nearby for practice. And the ruins of the Underport are accessible as well if you have a means of being underwater long enough. If you have an Air Train pass, you can get a ride over to the Dig, where excavation has revealed many interesting traps in the volcanic passages.
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This is one of the largest and most diversified districts in the city. It consists of two farming blocks on the west side of the city, with a market block inbetween them. The large Palace in the center of the city is also contained within this district. On the other side of the Palace is another market section, where the tent of Onin the seer is placed. The entrance to Haven Forest and the Mountain Temple is along the wall of the southern farming block.
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|North Town
This is the northwest section of the city, and the richest place in the town (second only to the Palace, of course). This is where all of the high-class business happens, and it's where the citizens feel most secure. The Stadium is at the very back of the district, where high-speed races are held almost every day. They're dangerous, but they keep the people entertained. Beyond that, the only denser residential district than this one is the Slums. Also, a ravine runs through most of the district, making it a perfect route for escaping the city-wide alert...
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Oscar Wilde once said, "One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation." All well and witty, but for those of us who aren't Victorian cads, reputation matters. It's the bedrock that our social lives are built upon and people go to great lengths to build and maintain a solid one. A new study shows that our ability to do this involves the right half of our brain, and particularly an area called the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC).
Disrupting the neurons in this area hampers a person's ability to build a reputation while playing psychological games. They can still act selflessly, and they still know what they would need to do in order to garner good repute. They just find it difficult to resist the temptation to cheat, even though they know it will cost them their status among other players. Most of us know from personal experience that knowing what's best for us is very different to acting on it – this study shows that this distinction exists at a neurological level.
Daria Knoch and colleages from the University of Basel focused on the PFC because it's a key player in mental abilities that centre around self-control, including planning, decision-making and attention. These "executive processes" must surely play a key part in building a good reputation, for doing so typically involves a cost (such as time, effort or money) and a tradeoff between current and future benefits. For example, I might return a dropped wallet so that I'll be seen in a good light, rather than pocket the cash and be done with it.
Other studies have compared neural activity in the PFC with people's behaviour, but these brain scans can't tell us whether the activity caused the behaviour or vice versa. To do that, Knoch decided to take the PFC out of the game entirely. She used a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) where rapidly changing magnetic fields induce weak electric currents in specific parts of the brain the suppresses the buzz of the local neurons.
After going through this treatment, 87 volunteers played a "trust game" in pairs. In each round, an investor decides how many points (out of 10) to donate to a trustee. These are quadrupled, and the trustee decides how many of these to give back. Some games were played anonymously and the investors never knew about the trustees' decisions. With the investor in the dark, the trustees had no strategic incentive to return any points at all, and doing so is a measure of their selflessness.
In other games, the trustee's last three decisions were public knowledge and that brought reputation into play. The trustee could achieve a good reputation by equalising the shares or paying back even more, or shatter their credibility by paying back nothing or very little. The latter option nets big rewards in the short-term, but the trustees needed to override their immediate self-interests for bigger gains in the long-term. And if the initial investment is greater, the trustees also need more self-control for the amount they have to return is greater.
This worked in practice. If trustees always equalised their payoffs, they had a 71% chance of being trusted with the full 10 point investment; if they gave nothing back, this probability fell to 6%. In the long run, those who always cooperated until the last hurdle earned 43% more points than constant cheats. And trustees cared about their reputation – when the game was anonymous, they send back around a quarter of their investment, but if their status was on the line, they gave back 44%.
TMS didn't affect the trustees' choices in the anonymous games, or in the reputational ones if investments were low. But when big points were on the table, things changed. Targeting their right lateral PFC significantly reduced their likelihood of paying back the investors to 30%, down from 41% for a fake round of TMS, or 48% for a burst directed to the left brain.
In fact, the trustees whose right brains were targeted with TMS behaved in exactly the same way regardless of whether the investors knew about their choices or not. Anonymous or transparent, it didn't matter – even though their reputation was on the line, their behaviour didn't change.
Knoch also found that the TMS didn't affect the volunteers' perceptions of fairness. They knew that hoarding large investments was unfair, and they knew that if they did so, the investors would probably give them fewer points in the future. They knew all of this – they just couldn't put it into useful practice. They couldn't put off the short-term gains of having lots of points, in favour of earning even more in the long-term – a basic skill when it comes to building a reputation.
Of course, the lateral PFC is probably only part of the story. It's fashionable to try and discover the brain region "responsible for" different abilities or behaviours, but the PFC is no more the brain's "reputation centre" than a steering wheel is a car's "driving centre" – clearly other parts like the wheels, axle and engine help too. Knoch (more so than many neuroscientists), is aware of this and says, " In highly complex processes such as reputation formation, brain areas do not act in isolation, but rather must work together as a network." Her next goal is to investigate how different parts of the brain interact when reputation is on the line.
Reference: PNAS 10.1073/pnas.0911619106
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